Terje Helland
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Source, YLE 🇫🇮:
yle.fi/a/74-20205588
yle.fi/a/74-20205588
Секретный план Путина: как Россия обходит санкции ради запчастей Wärtsilä – расследование Yle
В сеть, созданную Россией, входят десятки компаний-посредников. Почти 60 российских фирм приобрели запчасти Wärtsilä с начала войны в Украине. В компании утверждают, что пытаются этому помешать.
yle.fi
January 23, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Source, YLE 🇫🇮:
yle.fi/a/74-20205588
yle.fi/a/74-20205588
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Terje Helland
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January 23, 2026 at 7:26 PM
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The EU now faces a hard choice:
Treat Georgia as a partner bound by sanctions, or as a jurisdiction actively undermining them.
If Ukraine is to win the war, Georgian Dream must be stopped.
Silence rewards the strategy. Scrutiny breaks it.
10/11
Treat Georgia as a partner bound by sanctions, or as a jurisdiction actively undermining them.
If Ukraine is to win the war, Georgian Dream must be stopped.
Silence rewards the strategy. Scrutiny breaks it.
10/11
January 23, 2026 at 7:26 PM
The EU now faces a hard choice:
Treat Georgia as a partner bound by sanctions, or as a jurisdiction actively undermining them.
If Ukraine is to win the war, Georgian Dream must be stopped.
Silence rewards the strategy. Scrutiny breaks it.
10/11
Treat Georgia as a partner bound by sanctions, or as a jurisdiction actively undermining them.
If Ukraine is to win the war, Georgian Dream must be stopped.
Silence rewards the strategy. Scrutiny breaks it.
10/11
This is not administrative weakness.
It is a Georgian Dream deliberate strategy: extracting economic benefit from sanctions evasion while maintaining plausible deniability toward the EU.
9/11
It is a Georgian Dream deliberate strategy: extracting economic benefit from sanctions evasion while maintaining plausible deniability toward the EU.
9/11
January 23, 2026 at 7:26 PM
This is not administrative weakness.
It is a Georgian Dream deliberate strategy: extracting economic benefit from sanctions evasion while maintaining plausible deniability toward the EU.
9/11
It is a Georgian Dream deliberate strategy: extracting economic benefit from sanctions evasion while maintaining plausible deniability toward the EU.
9/11
Under Georgian Dream, enforcement bodies are centralized, oversight is politicized, and “strategic ambiguity” toward Russia has become state policy.
8/11
8/11
January 23, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Under Georgian Dream, enforcement bodies are centralized, oversight is politicized, and “strategic ambiguity” toward Russia has become state policy.
8/11
8/11
And it fits a broader pattern.
Georgia is increasingly functioned as a safe haven for sanctions evasion, linked to both Russian and Iranian networks across trade, finance, and logistics.
7/11
Georgia is increasingly functioned as a safe haven for sanctions evasion, linked to both Russian and Iranian networks across trade, finance, and logistics.
7/11
January 23, 2026 at 7:26 PM
And it fits a broader pattern.
Georgia is increasingly functioned as a safe haven for sanctions evasion, linked to both Russian and Iranian networks across trade, finance, and logistics.
7/11
Georgia is increasingly functioned as a safe haven for sanctions evasion, linked to both Russian and Iranian networks across trade, finance, and logistics.
7/11
That distinction is crucial.
This is not sanctions “leakage”.
It is Georgian Dream sanctions facilitation.
6/11
This is not sanctions “leakage”.
It is Georgian Dream sanctions facilitation.
6/11
January 23, 2026 at 7:26 PM
That distinction is crucial.
This is not sanctions “leakage”.
It is Georgian Dream sanctions facilitation.
6/11
This is not sanctions “leakage”.
It is Georgian Dream sanctions facilitation.
6/11
Georgia is not a passive transit point.
This operation runs through Georgia-registered companies, Georgian banking access, customs clearance, and Georgian jurisdiction.
Georgian Dream is probably overseeing the operation.
5/11
This operation runs through Georgia-registered companies, Georgian banking access, customs clearance, and Georgian jurisdiction.
Georgian Dream is probably overseeing the operation.
5/11
January 23, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Georgia is not a passive transit point.
This operation runs through Georgia-registered companies, Georgian banking access, customs clearance, and Georgian jurisdiction.
Georgian Dream is probably overseeing the operation.
5/11
This operation runs through Georgia-registered companies, Georgian banking access, customs clearance, and Georgian jurisdiction.
Georgian Dream is probably overseeing the operation.
5/11
This matters because Wärtsilä engines power many vessels central to Russia’s oil-export shadow fleet – a fleet explicitly targeted by EU sanctions to cut Kremlin war revenues.
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4/11
January 23, 2026 at 7:26 PM
This matters because Wärtsilä engines power many vessels central to Russia’s oil-export shadow fleet – a fleet explicitly targeted by EU sanctions to cut Kremlin war revenues.
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4/11
These are not old contracts or accidental spillovers.
The reporting documents systematic deliveries from 2023–2025, routed via third countries specifically to evade EU and Western export controls.
3/11
The reporting documents systematic deliveries from 2023–2025, routed via third countries specifically to evade EU and Western export controls.
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January 23, 2026 at 7:26 PM
These are not old contracts or accidental spillovers.
The reporting documents systematic deliveries from 2023–2025, routed via third countries specifically to evade EU and Western export controls.
3/11
The reporting documents systematic deliveries from 2023–2025, routed via third countries specifically to evade EU and Western export controls.
3/11
At the center is Arnika Trade LLC, a company registered in Tbilisi, identified as a key intermediary supplying spare parts for Finnish Wärtsilä engines used on Russian tankers under sanctions.
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2/11
January 23, 2026 at 7:26 PM
At the center is Arnika Trade LLC, a company registered in Tbilisi, identified as a key intermediary supplying spare parts for Finnish Wärtsilä engines used on Russian tankers under sanctions.
2/11
2/11
At a moment like this, breaking ranks risks strengthening the anti-democratic and human right violating Georgian Dream government and undermining the collective European stance. @jnbarrot.bsky.social .
January 22, 2026 at 6:34 PM
At a moment like this, breaking ranks risks strengthening the anti-democratic and human right violating Georgian Dream government and undermining the collective European stance. @jnbarrot.bsky.social .
It happens amid an massive anti-EU disinformation campaign and a coordinated smear of his colleague, German Ambassador Peter Fischer @germany.diplo.de .
info.imedi.ge/en/politics/...
info.imedi.ge/en/politics/...
Georgian PM, French Ambassador discuss prospects for further cooperation
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze on Thursday met with French Ambassador Olivier Courteaud. The meeting focused on existing relations between Georgia and France and prospects for further coope...
info.imedi.ge
January 22, 2026 at 6:34 PM
It happens amid an massive anti-EU disinformation campaign and a coordinated smear of his colleague, German Ambassador Peter Fischer @germany.diplo.de .
info.imedi.ge/en/politics/...
info.imedi.ge/en/politics/...
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Terje Helland
Online activist and fella. Working to inform and engage. Ukraine. Georgia. US. I support the underdog. Always.
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January 19, 2026 at 2:10 PM
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Put together, the picture is clear.
Georgia, under Georgian Dream, is not merely exposed to Iran.
It has become operationally crucial to the Iranian regime.
That usefulness has consequences far beyond Georgia’s borders.
10/11
Georgia, under Georgian Dream, is not merely exposed to Iran.
It has become operationally crucial to the Iranian regime.
That usefulness has consequences far beyond Georgia’s borders.
10/11
January 19, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Put together, the picture is clear.
Georgia, under Georgian Dream, is not merely exposed to Iran.
It has become operationally crucial to the Iranian regime.
That usefulness has consequences far beyond Georgia’s borders.
10/11
Georgia, under Georgian Dream, is not merely exposed to Iran.
It has become operationally crucial to the Iranian regime.
That usefulness has consequences far beyond Georgia’s borders.
10/11
When Georgian Dream’s parliamentary leader Gia Volski publicly downplays Western pressure and speaks of cooperation with Iran as manageable, he reveals the political logic behind this openness.
January 19, 2026 at 2:10 PM
When Georgian Dream’s parliamentary leader Gia Volski publicly downplays Western pressure and speaks of cooperation with Iran as manageable, he reveals the political logic behind this openness.
🇺🇸US authorities have already sanctioned Georgia-registered companies for Iran-related schemes. By enabling sanctions evasion that Washington is actively trying to stop, Georgian Dream is acting directly against US strategic interests.
8/11
8/11
January 19, 2026 at 2:10 PM
🇺🇸US authorities have already sanctioned Georgia-registered companies for Iran-related schemes. By enabling sanctions evasion that Washington is actively trying to stop, Georgian Dream is acting directly against US strategic interests.
8/11
8/11
Iranian business platforms openly describe Georgia as a place where Iranian goods can be imported, processed on paper, and re-exported as "Georgian" with fewer obstacles. This guidance is public, detailed, and explicit.
7/11
7/11
January 19, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Iranian business platforms openly describe Georgia as a place where Iranian goods can be imported, processed on paper, and re-exported as "Georgian" with fewer obstacles. This guidance is public, detailed, and explicit.
7/11
7/11
Why Georgia? Because it offers something Iran urgently needs:
easy company registration, limited scrutiny, and access to Western markets through existing trade agreements.
6/11
easy company registration, limited scrutiny, and access to Western markets through existing trade agreements.
6/11
January 19, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Why Georgia? Because it offers something Iran urgently needs:
easy company registration, limited scrutiny, and access to Western markets through existing trade agreements.
6/11
easy company registration, limited scrutiny, and access to Western markets through existing trade agreements.
6/11
The most sensitive part of this trade is oil and petroleum products.
For Iran, oil is not just commerce. It is regime survival under sanctions. Every additional outlet matters.
5/11
For Iran, oil is not just commerce. It is regime survival under sanctions. Every additional outlet matters.
5/11
January 19, 2026 at 2:10 PM
The most sensitive part of this trade is oil and petroleum products.
For Iran, oil is not just commerce. It is regime survival under sanctions. Every additional outlet matters.
5/11
For Iran, oil is not just commerce. It is regime survival under sanctions. Every additional outlet matters.
5/11